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Old 03-12-2017, 06:13 AM   #6 (permalink)
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Hiya Re: I have green spots on my yellow bananas... Safe to eat?

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Originally Posted by Tytaylor77 View Post
Correct me if I'm wrong. It's a store bought cavendish. They take forever to ripe without Ethylene. My cav and Orinocos I always have to ripen. Especially when picked early. I use apples but big banana companies use pure gas.

My guess is somehow the fingers got some oil of some type on them and the Ethylene wasn't able to penatrate the oil to ripen in that area. Just my wild guess.
That is reasonable. If those were commercial banana then they wold have been sprayed & fumigated when shipped.
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